"This siege method... It's really—" Ikeda Hengxing stood beside Yu Qiuhei, smiling as he watched the siege of the Momiji Army, trying to retrieve a word from his poor vocabulary that would describe the vision, "simple and crude." Ikeda thought for a moment before describing it. But then he shook his head a little dissatisfied, as if he felt that the word could not express all the feelings in his heart.

Yu Qiuping nodded, agreeing with his statement. This trick was actually realized by him after learning from Qi Jiguang.

Sometimes, a simple and clumsy approach is not necessarily a good approach.

As a famous commander who can design an exquisite formation like the Mandarin Duck Formation and has extremely high attainments in commanding the battle, Qi Jiguang's tactics against the nomadic cavalry seem a little monotonous - the car battalion. Use chariots to form a circle around the infantry and enclose the infantry inside, allowing the infantry to calmly shoot the nomadic cavalry.

Listing this formation means that you have given up all possibilities of battlefield maneuvering, and you have firmly framed your troops in place, which is similar to blocking the city gate when defending the city. However, such a clumsy method has been repeatedly used by famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou - because this battle array is simple and rude.

"If you don't have a clever plan to win, it's not a bad thing to use stupid methods, at least the enemy can't come up with a surprise plan." This is Qi Jiguang's teaching to Yu Qiuping that day.

So, Yu Qiuping meditated hard and came up with this set of siege methods. This style of play can be used when the besieging side does not need to be in a hurry and has an overwhelming advantage in firepower and troops. Specializing in one wall, suppressing the ranged troops at the head of the opposing city with iron cannons and artillery, pushing the cart to the city gate with almost no damage, smashing the city gate open, and directly entering the street battle.

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As a result, Miyoshi Nagayi saw the most comical siege battle in his decades in the army. There were no arrows and projectiles in the siege battle, no dozens of ladders to the city, no falling gravel and wood, no bloody battle at the city. Yes, only the monotonous and dull crash between the iron ram and the gates.

"Hurry up and send someone to block the city gates, and stand up behind the city gates." Miyoshi Changyi first gave a not-so-difficult order, and then, he gritted his teeth and ordered sharply, "Everyone get up and fight back!" The target is the rushing car below and the iron gunner in the distance! ”

He knew that if he did nothing and let the heavy and huge ram go down, the gates would be broken sooner or later. Even if the ranged soldier would have a terrible exchange ratio to get up and fight back, he had to do it.

At the moment when the archers and iron gunners at the head of the Miyoshi family got up, the iron gunners of the Momiji Army immediately launched a volley. Due to the fact that there were too many iron gunners in the Momiji Army, even if the Miyoshi family had the condescending terrain and the protection of the battlements, the casualties were still very heavy, not to mention the cannonballs that came from the roar. In an instant, the city wall was covered with blood.

And the head of the city also has a considerable part of the firepower, which is beckoning towards the rushing cars below. But neither the torches nor the bows and arrows could damage the iron sheet, and the projectiles only left bullet marks on the thick iron sheet and the thick wooden planks underneath. However, the rolling stones thrown down directly above the rushing car were quite effective. A single throw will cause a loud noise on the eaves of the rushing car, and a pit will appear on the eaves.

The Miyoshi Army endured huge casualties and fought with the Red Leaf Army, and the battle gradually became anxious. Jars of roasted jade were thrown from the city - a common method of attack for naval armies. Fill a clay pot with gunpowder, light a seal, and throw it at the enemy, causing the shards to shatter and scatter as they explode, inflicting brutal damage on enemy soldiers and igniting nearby wooden structures.

The pieces of iron on the heavy truck gradually shattered and fell off under the continuous blows, and several wooden planks were ignited one after another. Seeing that the chariot was about to collapse, the auxiliaries hurriedly pulled the chariot back from the city gate and pulled it to the open space on the side. Then, the iron artillery and artillery crews launched a salvo, covering the dozens of auxiliaries to flee from under the charging car in a swarm - but many of them were still knocked down by the Miyoshi army at the head of the city.

Before Miyoshi Changyi could breathe a sigh of relief, another iron truck was pushed up. It seems that the Yuqiu family plans to use this clumsy method to chisel the city gate open. Anyway, Yu Qiuping is not in a hurry, there is still a long time before the end of the autumn harvest, so there is no need to worry about the reinforcements of the Miyoshi family. In that case, why did they want to attach ants to the city and inflict heavy casualties on their own troops?

In this way, I don't know how many rushing cars were damaged, and in the afternoon, the east gate of Kishiwada Castle Sannomaru was finally smashed open after a loud "boom". Miyoshi Changyi had expected this, so he deployed a large number of troops in the city to wait for the Red Leaf Army to enter the city. Armed with spears, the Momiji soldiers are unable to exert their power in the narrow terrain street battles, and have a chance to keep them out of the city.

However, to Miyoshi Nagai's surprise, it was not the pikemen of the Momiji Army who rushed into the castle as the vanguard, but the elite bannermen of the Ikeda Army. These flags were armed with katanas, and each of them was a good hand at melee, and for a time they defeated and retreated from the unprepared Miyoshi family one after another. Immediately afterwards, a large number of banners rushed up the city wall along the stairs on the inner side of the city wall to attack the long-range soldiers and auxiliaries of the Miyoshi family at the head of the city. Due to the lack of troops, the only soldiers at the head of the castle could not stop the Ikeda family's army, and Miyoshi Nagaitsu had to withdraw them all to Ninomaru.

However, after expelling the Miyoshi army from the walls of the Sannomaru wall, the Ikeda army also stopped its movements and waited patiently for something. In a short time, dozens of ladders were erected on the walls of Sannomaru. The iron gunners of the Momiji Army climbed the head of Sannomaru Castle in large numbers along the ladder and then fired at the Miyoshi army on the walls of the Ninomaru Castle Walls. This time, the Miyoshi Army did not have a condescending terrain advantage, and was beaten so that it could not raise its head. After a while, another iron cart was pushed up and began to ram the gates of Ninomaru - it seemed that the Momiji Army was planning to take down the entire Kishiwada Castle in such a slow and clumsy way. However, in the face of the absolute firepower superiority of the Red Leaf Army, Miyoshi Changyi had no way to deal with him.

That night, the rushing car failed to knock open the gate of Ninomaru. However, Yu Qiuping was not in a hurry, and continued to let the rushing car hit the door after dark, even if he was blind, he could complete such a simple job. Finally, in the middle of the night, the gates of Ninomaru were broken down. However, Yu Qiuping did not mean to fight at night, but patiently waited until the eastern sky was white the next day before resuming the attack again.

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"It's so deceitful!" When Ogasawara Narisuke watched the Momiji Army slowly advance in this way, but he didn't have any way, he was furious, "Your Highness, let's fight!" Rush over the walls on both sides of Sannomaru and pack up all those iron gunners! ”

"That's not desperate, it's death." Miyoshi Nagaitsu glanced at the heavily guarded Momiji Army, and on the wall of the east gate of Sannomaru, there were many pikemen standing in good formation, and they were enough to hold the wall airtightly.

"Although I stayed here, I originally wanted to die." Miyoshi Changyi silently added a sentence in his heart.

"What then? Is that what you are waiting for? Waiting for the Red Leaf Army to slowly come over and push the castle tower all the way? Ogasawara shook his head.

"No, of course not. But at least it is necessary to die worthwhile. Miyoshi Changyi squinted his eyes and frowned, looking at the battle situation in front of him. After a few moments, he realized that the Red Leaf Army had made a mistake in its formation—a large number of troops had poured into the vicinity of Sannomaru. And Yuqiu Pingyuan was far away in the big camp outside the city, and it seemed that only the 750 pikemen and some cavalry prepared by the fine willow were left.

"Hit his own camp!" A fierce light flashed in Miyoshi Changyi's eyes, "If you can get rid of this henchman, it will be worth the price." ”

In a normal siege battle, the besieging side of the ant-attached city will engage the troops of the defending side in full engagement. However, Yu Qiuping's siege method, except for the battle of long-range soldiers, the melee soldiers on both sides had almost no contact - which also led to a huge hidden danger: where the melee soldiers of the Miyoshi Army were, Yu Qiuping did not know.

So, when Miyoshi Nagayi led 1,400 soldiers to suddenly kill from the north gate of Kishiwada Castle and went straight to Yuqiuping's camp outside the east gate, it was really beyond his expectations. Therefore, he immediately ordered the artillery and the iron gunners of the head of the Mitsunomaru Castle to strike at Miyoshi Nagaitsu's troops, and at the same time transferred back the pikemen who had been sent into the castle to support Ikeda Tsuneko, and Naruto.

The condescending fire of the iron artillery and the salvo of the artillery brought a lot of casualties to the Miyoshi Army, and the speed of the Red Leaf Army's maneuver far exceeded Miyoshi Nagayi's imagination. He had to detach 500 men to hinder the maneuver of Tokiwa and Naruto. After suffering huge casualties, when he rushed to the outside of Yuqiuping's camp, the remaining soldiers around him were not as many as those prepared by the willows.

Not surprisingly, the assault of the Miyoshi Army failed to break through Hosoyanagi's defensive line. Miyoshi Changyi was already red-eyed at this moment, and regardless of it, he rode out with the 200 flag knights around him, and went straight to Yu Qiuping's horse print, intending to kill and surprise to replace Yu Qiuping's life. However, Yu Qiuping had already prepared, and the 400 cavalry led by Kohata Jiesheng once again swept through in a wall-like formation.

The cavalry of the Miyoshi family obviously did not have the courage and discipline of the red leaf cavalry, after seeing the desperate formation of the red leaf cavalry, the morale had collapsed, the smaller half of the people pulled out their horses and left, and the rest of the people were mostly hesitant, and only caused more than 50 casualties to the red leaf cavalry in the hedging, and almost the entire army collapsed.

Soon after, Keiji Maeda escorted a bloodied samurai to Akihei. The man's left arm had been severed, and the wound that had not had time to be bandaged was lying with blood, and his body was covered with scratches and holes, and his face was covered in blood and bruises. At some point, his helmet had been knocked off, his bun was disheveled, and his white hair was covered in mud and blood, and it was unkempt and drooping.

"This is Sanhao Changyi, this guy, what a mad dog." Keiji Maeda snorted disdainfully, "After being cut under the horse, I cut off two horse legs like a madman, and I don't want to die." ”

Yu Qiuping looked down at Miyoshi Changyi, this famous general was lifeless at the moment, I don't know if he had gone into shock due to excessive blood loss.

Just when Yu Qiuping was thinking about how to use the captured Miyoshi Changyi to negotiate with the Miyoshi family, the person in front of him suddenly broke free from the suppression of Maeda Keiji and another soldier, and suddenly rushed towards Yu Qiuping. He was searched and had no weapons, so he had to open his bloody mouth and bite Yu Qiuping's neck. The fierce and vicious appearance, like a hellish ghost, frightened Yu Qiuping, and hurriedly pulled out the thousand birds on his waist to block.

However, Miyoshi Nagaitsu is an old man after all, and he has been injured so badly that he has no strength - which is why Keiji Maeda and the other soldier are careless. Yu Qiuping just slashed him to the ground with a hurried blow, blood gushing out of his throat and chest, and he couldn't survive.